It is almost not possible to learn a foreign language without learning its culture. Or other way round, you will learn its culture when learning…
Posts published by “Prof. Dr. Mikihiro Moriyama”
Dean of Students, Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan Professor of Indonesian Studies, Dept. of Asian Studies, Nanzan University Secretary General of Himpunan Pengkaji Indonesia Seluruh Jepang.
Mikihiro Moriyama, was born in Kyoto, Japan on 16 September 1960. He is now a scholar of Sundanese language and literature and currently holds the post of Professor of Indonesian Studies at Nanzan University, Japan. He has written several books and essays on the genesis of Sundanese writing, print culture and modernity, language policy in Indonesia, and knowledge formation in colonial West Java. He has translated contemporary Indonesian literature including Putu Wijaya’s and Seno Gumira Ajidarma’s into Japanese.